Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Romania currently hosts the largest on-shore wind park in Europe. Wind energy is booming in the economically weak country, yet investors remain worried about a lack of clear regulations. Strong winds and strong state support: Romania is on its way to becoming wind energy’s paradise. Back in 2008, the Bucharest government agreed on a law to
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Barcelona recorded over 480 million journeys on public transport during the first quarter of 2011. The figure represents a growth of 2% on last year’s number and equals the figure for 2008. Public transport in the Barcelona area recovered, during the first quarter of this year, the number of journeys recorded in 2008, before the start
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Lebanon is at least seven years behind Israel in terms of developing its maritime natural gas and oil fields, Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported United Nations special representative Michael Williams as saying Thursday. Williams urged Lebanon to begin passing laws that would allow energy companies to begin searching for oil and natural gas in Lebanon’s Mediterranean
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
In an effort to clean up the international reputation of its oil sands, Canada’s federal government said Thursday it will launch a new air- and water-monitoring program for the industry. The plan marks a significant change to regulatory oversight of the oil sands, an industry that has boomed in recent years amid sky-high oil prices and
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Russia’s legendary Mir submarines have been used to reach the ocean floor beneath the North Pole, film the Titanic in its watery grave and search for the sunken treasures of Czar Nicholas II in Siberia. Now they are exploring the gigantic underwater gulches of Lake Geneva. Read More
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
A long-delayed Russian radio telescope was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the country’s Federal Space Agency said. The Spektr-R orbiting radio observatory was launched Monday into an elliptical orbit that varies between 621 miles and 207,000 miles above the Earth, SPACE.com reported Monday. Multiple delays in construction of the telescope, built by Lavochkin Association
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
The division of time into measurable units has been something of an obsession for mankind for at least the last 4,000 years. From the observation of shadows cast by stone stele, the movements of stars and planets and on through increasingly exotic mechanical, electrical and finally atomic regulated mechanisms, fine engineering and scientific minds have
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
The national weather forecaster, which is part of the Ministry of Defence, has also been criticised for handing out up to £1.5 million of bonuses. The Science and Technology Committee will look at how effectively the Met Office runs its public weather service remit. The forecaster is relied upon by the army, air traffic control, the BBC
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Brest from 18 to 22 July for the preparation of their fifth report, to be published in 2014. A year and a half after having been at the center of an intense smear campaign, the IPCC chairman, Indian economist Rajendra Pachauri, returns in an interview with World of the
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
According to satellite imagery data of July 18 the area of burnt-out section constituted several square kilometers. The Republican Forestry Agency reports that 15 people from forest protection service, 12 troopers, a fire extinguishing equipment and machinery were sent to stop the fire. Read More
